Reverie Friends 'Star-Gazing Mountain' Episode 110 | Quantum Narrative (1) | Instability of Perception
Kumo
'About this quantum narrative...'
'I just can't seem to wrap my head around it...'
Hakuun
'I think that's a very honest reaction.'
Kumo
'I don't understand how it can be '
both fiction and
non-fiction at the same time.'
Hakuun
'Regarding that, I apologize,
as it seems I have
caused a misunderstanding.'
Kumo
'Is that not the case?'
Ari
'But,
didn't Hakuun say exactly that?'
Hakuun
'Yes.'
'I certainly
did say that.'
Saru
'So it's a lie?'
Hakuun
'No, it is not a lie.'
Saru
'Which one is it?'
Panda
'My head is
getting all tangled up now.'
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Hakuun
'I will explain it clearly.'
'Whether it is fiction or
non-fiction, it will be decided
as one or the other.'
Saru
'Isn't that different from what you said?'
Hakuun
'However, that decision is made
only after you engage with the story.'
Saru
'What do you mean by that?'
Kumo
'I see,
you mean that at the stage of engaging with the story
it is decided as one or the other,
but until then, it is neither,
is that what you are trying to say?'
Hakuun
"That is what it means."
Spider
"So that's why it's 'quantum'."
Ant
"In that case, I can understand it."
Monkey
"I still don't get it."
Panda
"I'm not keeping up either..."
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Hakuun
"Before a story is read, "}, {
fiction and non-fiction "}, {
are in a state of superposition."
"Through the observation of reading, "}, {
within that observer, "}, {
it 'decides' on one or the other, "}, {
that is what it means."
Monkey
"Then which one is correct?"
Hakuun
"I think both are correct."
Monkey
"That can't be right, can it?"
"There's only one correct answer, right?"
Hakuun
"I understand that question well, but"
"it is a somewhat difficult question."
"However, "}, {
if we assume that 'there isn't necessarily only one correct answer', "}, {
we can verify it "}, {
from several perspectives."
Spider
"I would certainly like you to."
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Hakuun
"Let's experience the differences in perception "}, {
by the world."
"Now then..."
"What is this shape?"
Ant
'It's a rectangle.'
Monkey
'Huh?'
'How could you see anything but a circle?'
Spider
'No, it's an oval... it looks like an oval to me too.'
Little Bird
'Isn't it a cylinder?'
Monkey
'Which one is right?'
Hakuun
'You could say they are all "correct".'
Monkey
'That's ridiculous.'
'It can't be anything but a circle.'
Panda
'We're looking at the same thing, so why are our answers so different?'
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Hakuun
'Monkey, could you lie down for a moment?'
Monkey
'What's this all of a sudden?'
'Is this okay?'
Hakuun
'While in that position, please look at this again.'
'What shape is it?'
Monkey
'That's obviously a circle...'
'!?'
'Huh?'
'It's a rectangle!?'
'You cheated, didn't you!'
Spider
"No, I don't think there's any trick to it."
Ant
"Because nobody is doing anything."
Little Bird
"Why don't you try standing up and looking at it again?"
Monkey
"From above?"
"Huh?"
"It's become a circle again."
"What's going on?"
—
Spider
"So, even the same object can look different depending on the perspective."
Hakuun
"That is correct."
Ant
"So that means it looked three-dimensional to the little bird because it can fly?"
Monkey
"Doesn't that mean the little bird is right?"
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Hakuun
"I think that depends on how you handle the concept of 'correctness'."
"But let's save that discussion for later..."
"What you have understood here is that even when encountering the same information, perception is not necessarily singular."
"Perception is something far more unstable than you might think."
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Owl
"The perception created by a single piece of information"
"is filtered through the 'world'."
"The way it is seen differs"
"It is not necessarily uniquely determined"
"Which one is the correct answer, I wonder?"
